Taking a leap

Posted on November 22, 2006 by admin.

Cleverchimp has been just me for a few years, half-time, as Martina, my dear wife of twenty years has continued to work for the Man, and I’ve been house dad.

A couple weeks ago Martina quit her job. Her company was going to send her full-time to Los Angeles for six months, which would have meant Cleverchimp slowing way down when it needs to speed up, way up, to fulfill existing and projected 2007 Stokemonkey orders. It would also have been very hard on a four-year-old boy going through an extreme mama-attachment phase. So Stokemonkey is now our only bread and butter.

It feels good, so far. I’ve taken a new interest in dental floss now that we’re between insurance plans.

It would feel better if we had all the stock on hand we need. Big battery shipment is being held in port (don’t ask), while small batteries arrived only last week. Product assembly is proceeding a little more slowly than usual, for a little while, because everything is now an important teaching/learning opportunity, and my private (lack of) organizational skills are getting challenged and starched up to support more hands.

I’m headed to London and Amsterdam in December, too, on business (really). Stay tuned.

thanks for all your hard work and sacrifices in following a dream that makes life better for all of us. happy thanksgiving and let us know if there’s anything we can ever do to to help as you make this big leap.

Not a day goes my but what I have a big grin in my heart from riding 25 to 40 miles on my Stokemonkey/Instigator to and around San Francisco in my work.

As my senses become increasingly attuned to the bike and motor, I feel my body becoming more in sync with the hybrid experience. I don’t know how it’s possible, but I love it more each week. It seems I’m really well into the process of becoming an Identity Cyclist, or something good and strong.

I just attended a lunch with 2000 people being educated about the Pachamama Alliance wherein we heard from two Ecuadorean rainforest indigenous men who spoke about the need “to change the dream of the North.” The everday work bicycle experience sure packs a big payload of dream-changing.

I certainly have you, Todd, to thank for facilitating this experience. If there’s anything I can do at a distance to assist you and Martina in your new adventures, don’t be shy in asking.